Aug 16, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
A little over a year ago, when Rick Perlstein published his mammoth study of “the American berserk” – the original subtitle of Nixonland – in the years between 1965 and 1972, he concluded his 748-page saga of heated hardhats and howling hippies...
Aug 13, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In this morning’s Washington Post, Paul Begala, one of the architects of Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign and later a major White House advisor, contributes an op-ed. In it he argues that, although supporters of an expansive health-care policy (single-payer or...
Aug 10, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
An article by Richard J. Cross III in yesterday’s Baltimore Sun deserves quotation in full. Mr. Cross IDs himself somewhat in the piece; more recently he was press secretary and speechwriter for former Maryland Governor Bob Ehrlich. In February, America...
Aug 10, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Ed Nixon, was on CSPAN yesterday to discuss the 35th anniversary of his older brother’s resignation: In another CSPAN interview dated two months ago, Mr. Nixon discussed his new book The Nixons: A Family Portrait. Click here to order The Nixons from the Richard...
Aug 9, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Today marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of President Nixon’s resignation, and since I wrote about coverage of this last night, some more articles and op-eds of note have appeared. Apart from the memorable discussion of RN’s achievements on this...
Aug 9, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
While the title of this essay might make one blanch; the concluding days of Watergate should be considered as one of Richard Nixon’s finest hours. Along with the successes of the opening to China, arms control with the Soviet Union, and all of his domestic...
